Sunday, April 8, 2012

Wanna See "An Insult" to Freedom, al-Shatty? Look In the Mirror, Pal

The head of Egypt's MuBros is in a froth because a former Mubarak factotum has the chutzpah to want to run in a "fair and free" (ha!) election:

(Reuters) - A bid for power by Hosni Mubarak's former intelligence chief is an insult to Egypt's revolution that, if successful, would trigger a second nationwide revolt, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for Egypt's presidency said.

In his first public comments since being nominated by the Brotherhood on March 31, Khairat al-Shater played down fears of a clash between the powerful Islamist movement and the army generals who have ruled Egypt since Mubarak was ousted last year.

But he warned the Brotherhood would not back a $3.2 billion emergency IMF loan requested by the army-backed government unless the terms are changed or the government steps down and lets a new administration oversee how the funds are spent.

In an interview with Reuters on Sunday, the 61-year-old millionaire businessman denounced former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman's eleventh-hour decision to seek his former boss's job. Mubarak made Suleiman vice president just before losing power.

"I consider his entry an insult to the revolution and the Egyptian people," Shater said. "Omar Suleiman has made a big mistake. He will only win through forgery and, if this happens, the revolution will kick off again."...

"Revolution" and "Arab Spring" sound ever so much more appealing than what's really going on here: "Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

If that global conquest thing doesn't work out for him, Shatty could always play Tevye in a revival of Fiddler on the Roof, no? (Funnily enough, the Rabbi in the musical's suggested blessing for the Czar can be easily adapted for our time: "May God bless and keep sharia...far away from us.")

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Scaramouche is my nom de Web. My real name is Mindy G. Alter, and I like to think of myself as a free speecher with a sense of humour. My bailiwick: fighting on behalf of all the good things that free speech helps safeguard, and doing my utmost to highlight the malevolence and imbicilities of those who oppose freedom, whomever they may be.